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one who chooses, either publicly or privately, to look at the account, can see at 

 once how every penny has been spent. I used at first to make, with my own 

 hands, four manuscript copies of the annual Report of Progress, often reaching 

 more than one hundred printed pages — one copy for the Government, one for the 

 House of Assembly, one for the Legislative Council, and one for the printer ; but 

 of late I have been forced to employ an amanuensis for part. The fittings of the 

 Museum are scarcely yet completed ; when they are I must employ additional aid, 

 if it should cost me my whole salary. The accumulated materials of eleven years 

 are to be classified and arranged." 



Emulating the example of their chief, the assistants have also 

 laboured with diligence and credit to'theinselves, and have undergone 

 similar fatigue and hardship. In the Chemical Department Mr. 

 Hunt has, since his connexion with the Survey, established a high 

 reputation among the foremost ranks of the men of science both in 

 Europe and America ; whilst the others have acquired a fair proportion 

 of merit by their contributions to the Geology and Geography of the 

 Province. 



It has frequently been urged by some that the proceedings of the 

 Survey were too scientific and not sufficiently practical — that great 

 attention has been paid to fossils, and to remote and comparatively 

 Northern districts of country — while a partial attention only has been 

 given to certain known Mineral districts, and the more densely settled 

 and more available lands. In answer to this, let us take the concluding 

 portion of Mr. Logan's reply to question 93, page 39 of the Report 

 of the Select Committee. 



Question 93, page 39. — "Thus, Economics lead to Science, and Science to Econ- 

 omics. The physical structure of the area examined is, of course, especially attended 

 to, as it is by means of it that the range or distribution of useful materials, both 

 discovered and to be discovered, can be made intelligible. A strict attention to 

 Fossils is essential in ascertaining the physical structure. I have been told that 

 some persons, observing how carefully attentive I endeavour to be to this evidence 

 of sequence, have ignorantly supposed the means to be the end, and while erro- 

 neously giving me credit as an authority upon Fosdils, have fancied Economics 

 to be sacrificed to them. In their fossil darkness, they have mistaken my 

 rush-light for a sun. I am not a naturalist. I do not describe fossils, but 

 uee them. They are geological friends who direct me in the way to what is 

 valuable. If you wish information from a friend, it is not necessary that you go to 

 him, impressed with the idea that he is a collection of bones peculiarly arranged, 

 of muscles, arteries, nerves and skin, but you merely recognise his face, remember 

 his name, and interrogate him to the necessary end. So it is with Fossils. To get 

 the necessary information from them you must be able to recognise their aspect, 

 and in order to state your authority you must give their names. Some tell of Coal ; 

 they are cosmopolites; while some give local intelligence of Gypsum, or Salt, or 

 Building Stone, and so on. One of them whose family name is Cythere, but who is 

 not yet specifically baptized, helped ua last year to trace out upwards of fifty miles 

 of Hydraulic Limestone." 



